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We take a trip to a distant future! The year 2019 to be exact!!!! Kit, Phil, & Graham dive into the kinda-sorta-maybe Mad Max/Escape from New York Italian knock-off 2019 After the Fall of New York!!! They guys also discuss Martin Scorcese's, er I mean Todd Philips' Joker! Although they pronounced it with a Swedish accent, making it more enjoyable for all! Graham opines about the lack of cape wearing in modern society, and how henchmen in gangs should bring it back! They discuss the career of Sergio Martino and the different paths he took to get to 2019, After the Fall of New York! All this and much much more in the latest edition of Death by Video!!!!!!!!

The whole gang is back to discuss the 1970s classic: Smokey & The Bandit!!! Hear the tantalizing tales of daring risks and dangerous runs that this movie had to endure to make it to the screen! Listen in as Kit repeatedly insists that "smashing" did occur! Admire in astonishment Lil's disgust at Jackie Gleason's sandwich eating! Stand by or against Phil's degree that Phantom of the Paradise is better than Phantom of the Opera! All this and more on Death By Video!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year!!! Phil, Kit & Graham discuss their favourite films of 2019! Hear Kit talk about the Irishman! Here Graham discuss his love for some little seen films like Sole & Lost Holiday! Here Phil dig in deep on The Souvenir!! All this and some surprise picks! Even the dreaded James Cameron rears his head in this year end episode of your (least) favourite film podcast!!!

We finally watch the creepy Canadian Christmas classic! Listen in as Kit, Graham & "Death Wish" Phil dive into the history and infamy of this Toronto shot slasher! Spoiler alert: the guys declare it the best slasher ever! If you disagree make your own darn podcast!

Just in time for Halloween! We complete our 1990s odyssey with the horror film that defined the decade: SCREAM! Hear Graham call out the dumb people who watched this movie and thought it was everything there is to know about horror movies! Listen to Phil as he waxes poetic about his dislike of dutch angles! And discover Kit trying to elevate the show by tying Scream to the work of Michael Haneke, only for Michael Haneke to show up! All this and more on our special Halloween episode!

Freddy Krueger finally makes an appearance on Death By Video! Kit's long help hope wins out as the gang tackle the "last" Nightmare on Elm Street movie Freddy's Dead! Listen in as Phil reminisces about various 90s alt rock bands to try and get needle drops on the soundtrack, and Kit waxes poetically about his love of a Nightmare on Elm Street. While Graham doesn't really care for the series, he does enjoy the yucks and guffaws found within Freddy's Dead. And Lil' just tries to keep the guys in line.

Horror in the 1990s keeps on rolling with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation!!! Join Phil, Lil & Graham as they dive into Austin, Texas' weirdest attempt to make a mainstream film! Hear all about Matthew McConaughey's remote controlled leg! Listen in as the gang give props to Renee Zellweger's performance of a survivor of abuse! Plus we try and figure out what exactly is going on with the Illuminati and Leatherface's cross dressing! Enjoy!

We kick off the Halloween season with a film with Halloween in its name! In what some are calling our best episode ever, the gang watches and learns from Halloween 6 The Curse of Michael Myers. Graham tries to keep everything together and explain the ins and outs of the curse of the thorn mythology that was a plague upon the Halloween films from 1989 to 1995. Both Kit and Phil find the the whole mythology dubious and secretly hope it never gets mentioned again!!!!!

The whole gang is back! And they watch the gnarliest film they've ever watched!!! If sleaze gained sentience and directed a film New York Ripper would be it! Filmed in the early 80s in grimiest period in NYC history you can smell the dank!!!

It's the last group podcast from this years Toronto International Film Festival!!!! Phil & Graham check out Olivier Assayas' newest film WASP NETWORK. It's a tale of espionage and counter-espionage as done by civilians for and against Cuba in Miami in the 1990s! Our hosts agree this film is really good and definitely worth a watch!

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Graham is (briefly) joined by special guest host Nathan Dharamshi as they watch the new film from Todd Philips: Joker. Featuring Joaquin Phoenix in a very different take on the clown prince of crime.

We're live at the Toronto International Film Festival. Kit & Graham discuss the fantastic new film Dolemite is My Name!!!! Staring Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore!!!!

Listen in as we reflect on Quentin Tarantino's most sentimental movie! It's a visual feast full of audio treats as Tarantino takes us back to the year 1969 and all the goings on of Hollywood California! Graham champions the film while Kit & Phil play the role of crotchety contrarians! There's music cues aplenty and growing anxiety in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood!!!

We're back! We discuss recent films we've seen and then dive into the amazing hellscape that is Lucio Fulci's The Beyond! We bask in the glory that is David Warbeck! We recoil in terror at the gooey-gory set pieces! We dig into the eyeball trauma that Fulci ramps up to 6000% in this film! There's zombies! There's head trauma! There's carnivorous spiders! There's satanic painters! There's ghost dogs! And so much more! Plus we're joined by two very special guests!

It's the gnarliest movie we've ever done! Our second instalment in the Lucio Fulci series has us take a trip to the charming small New England town of Dunwich aka the City of the Living Dead! These aren't zombies! These are much much worse! Listen in as Phil, Kit & Graham try to rationalize the hell which gets unleashed during this film. Graham tells the story of how teenage-Graham discovered the VHS tape of the film (then known as Gates of Hell) in an independent video store in Nova Scotia! Phil gives massive props to Fabio Frizzi's dynamite score! And Kit grooves on the eerie atmosphere! There's brain drilling! Priest hanging! Corse stealing! And intestine puking!

It's our first episode in our Lucio Fulci retrospective! We dig into his notorious 1979 gut muncher: Zombie (aka Zombi 2, aka Zombie Flesh Eaters)! We dive into the zombie craze that took over Italy in the late 1970s/early 1980s! It's a long episode but we go all the way through this landmark Italian film! There's gut munching! Scuba diving! Shark fighting! Jeep driving! Spanish conquistadoring! And all the zombie brain exploding you can fit into 90 minutes!!!

PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT! Yes! This is the episode you've been waiting for! We dive into the 70s Rudy Ray Moore classic DISCO GODFATHER! It's toe-tappin', hip swayin', pelvis thrustin', belly swingin', and roller skatin'!!!!! We also explore the death of disco and how it affected this film's release and issues around it's anti-drug message (despite the cast and crew being verrrrrrrry pro-drug). So slip into a leisure suit, put some disco beats on your turntable, and listen to the soothing voices of Death By Video!!!!!

We're back with a little seen comedy about a man and his slight resemblance to Bruce Lee! Featuring nunchuck action! Mechanical bull riding! Pasta making! Fish punching! Chop stick untensilizing! And so much more! Everyone on the podcast likes the same movie for once! We also discuss the feud between Nicholas Winding Refn and William Friedkin, and discuss Refn's free streaming service (byNWR.com). Hear us massacre the accents of several different nationalities on our way to uncovering the genius of THEY CALL ME BRUCE?

After an extended hiatus we're back with the Alice Cooper led MONSTER DOG!!! It's the classic story of a rockstar who's accused of being a monster dog and committing horrendous crimes just because his father was accused of being a monster dog one time 20 years ago! Hear Lil swear like a drunken sailor while the gang breaks down this surprisingly fun slice of Italian 80s horror cinema!